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In March-June, ‘Let’s Do It, Romania!’ organized the second edition of ‘Let’s Do It, Danube!’ campaign which involved more than 20,000 people. The aim of the action was to educate the Romanian citizens about water protection and especially about the Danube river, the most important river in the country.

Transportation of the garbage was organised by the companies that usually do that for the city. There was a meeting with the environmental supervisors of every city in our county. We asked them to arrange (and they did) the garbage to be picked up and transported.

Waste

Short overview of mapping.

Close to the every city and few recreation areas we did not map garbage point, but in the larger areas about 40%

Cleaned garbage points: 33

Estimated amount of garbage: 1100 m3

Waste handling.

Everything went to sorting and then recycling

Waste types.

Mostly plastic, about 70%

Cleanup project: Let's do it! Romania – 12.05.2012 (All day)

Contact: ioana.daia@letsdoitromania.ro, +40 723 283635

Actual number of volunteers: 182000

Amount of waste collected: 300 000 trash bags

Short overview

12 May 2012" Viitorul in Zori"" ONG, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment 300 000 bags of trash was collected. All 41 departments of the country participated. Recycling rate - 37% of the trash bags were directed to the recycling centers

Situation before the cleanup

Far too many illegal dumpsites, especially in the rural area.

Organizing

Structure.

The organization was created for the 2011 cleanup. There were 3 PMs and 50 people in the coreteam

Finance.

Voluntary work from the organizers + sponsoring from companies. We had a special fundraising department.